Download or read book Waiting For Snow In Havana written by Carlos Eire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Download or read book Inter America written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speak of Me As I Am written by Sonia Belasco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story of grief, honesty, and the healing power of art — the ties that bind us together, even when those we love are gone. Melanie and Damon are both living in the shadow of loss. For Melanie, it's the loss of her larger-than-life artist mother, taken by cancer well before her time. For Damon, it’s the loss of his best friend, Carlos, who took his own life. As they struggle to fill the empty spaces their loved ones left behind, fate conspires to bring them together. Damon takes pictures with Carlos’s camera to try to understand his choices, and Melanie begins painting as a way of feeling closer to her mother. But when the two join their school’s production of Othello, the play they both hoped would be a distraction becomes a test of who they truly are, both together and on their own. And more than anything else, they discover that it just might be possible to live their lives without completely letting go of their sadness. Praise for Speak of Me As I Am: "Debut author Belasco adeptly captures the tribulations of high school life while also celebrating art's ability to help clarify and contextualize its joys and sorrows. . . . The novel's most intriguing character . . . is grief itself, which the author illuminates, examines, and dissects with a surgeon's precision and the gentle touch of an artist. A stirring account of the trials of adolescence." —Kirkus Reviews "This book will undoubtedly be compared to Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park. . . . Teens seeking a quieter but no less moving story will find this book a perfect read." —Booklist "Never maudlin, always authentic, the portrayal of their struggles to deal with grief and with love will resonate with many teens." —VOYA "A good purchase for realistic fiction collections and for readers looking for books about survivor’s guilt and healing." —School Library Journal "Belasco’s novel sends a powerful message about the complicated nature of grief. . . . This powerful, emotional work should be earmarked to be a favorite with teen readers." —BookPage
Download or read book The Circle written by Stefano Prina and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was financially independent, healthy, blessed with a loving family, and quietly loving the magic of life. Then she appeared, changing life and the destiny of the human race forever.
Download or read book Purpose driven Organizations written by Carlos Rey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This open access book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee’s individual sense of purpose. Advocating a shift from previous models and theories, this book contributes to debate and offers insight for both scholars and practitioners. The chapters bring together academic rigour and practical models to help readers distinguish between the fads and influential strategies. Exploring the development of purpose at each level of business, from strategy and leadership to communication, this book avoids theoretical jargon and provides new approaches to building sustainable purpose-driven organizations. This is an Open Access book sponsored by DPMC Spain, UIC Barcelona and Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership
Download or read book Hansard s Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1946-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book The Tree of Life written by Juan Rodriguez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica establishes a religious empire that is ruling over what’s left of the world. She creates other beings like herself, which she adopts as children. After training them and teaching them how to utilize their powers and become superior beings capable of healing everything and solving any and every conflict, problems arise. Michal begins using her subtle powers of mind-control to deceive Veronica’s children into rebelling against her. Now there are beings just as powerful as Veronica trying to destroy everything. They know her every thought, they can see the future, and they have all the powers that Veronica has. Plus, she loves them more than anything. How does she stop a creature just as powerful as herself without hurting them and proving that this mind-controller was responsible. A more sinister plot unfolds. The Bleeders in Africa are getting stronger and strogner and forming an alliance, besides all of this, the man in charge of running the country, Caophe, who is all the books, has developed a bad sex and drug addiction. Besides all of this, Michal has an even bigger chip she is about to play. She is manipulating Veronica’s children to resurrect an even more powerful project. Sherman’s first project. Michal revives Project Rain and is mind-controlling him. Everything is being blamed on Veronica and her religious empire. Michal corrupts Religious history and conspiracies to make it look like Veronica is an evil dictator while in secret controlling everyone to do evil. One last thing I forgot to mention. Project Rain’s power is the control over the reality of life and death. Whatever he touches, whatever he looks at or breathes on or advances toward, dies. Veronica must face death itself and somehow save the lives of her wicked children.
Download or read book Captain Jinks Hero written by Ernest Crosby and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Captain Jinks, Hero by Ernest Crosby
Download or read book Ashes of Partnership written by Bongani Andrew Mahlangu and published by Exceller Books. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Ashes of Partnership’ is a magnificent novel about a failed business partnership. Carlos Johnson is a happy-go-lucky person with a wonderful sense of humour in everything but discovers the other side of himself when he wakes up to the responsibility of protecting the company he founded with his beloved friend, who chose to follow the dark ambition of his brother. Finally, Carlos won and took it as a lesson for life.
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1946-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book Material Witness written by Ted Leigh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The publication of Porter's letters marks an occasion for a renewed celebration of his painting and an appreciation of his quirky, indeed ornery, personality. Porter was a feisty correspondent, who fearlessly entered the intellectual discourse of his time." ---From the introduction by David Lehman "In this lifetime of letters, Fairfield Porter reveals the complexity and passion of a protagonist in a novel by Dostoevsky or Henry James." ---Jane Freilicher Fairfield Porter (1907-75) has been called by poet John Ashbery "perhaps the major American artist of the century." He was also known as a gifted art critic. Beyond shedding light on his personal views, this collection of Fairfield Porter's letters demonstrates his profound contribution to American art and literature and displays his acumen as a political critic. The letters tell the story of a reserved artist and intellectual, torn between the tensions and pressures he felt among politics, family life, and painting-a man who forged a painting style outside the politically correct artistic perceptions of both left and right. The collection includes letters from Porter's early travels to the Soviet Union, including a description of an interview with Trotsky, as well as some of his later letters to close friends, including Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Rod Padgett, Larry Rivers, and James Schuyler, among others. While the letters reveal many sides of the brilliant and independent-minded Porter, they also provide a cultural context for the time period and the circle of artists and poets with whom Porter associated. The letters not only tell a story of the artist himself but are also valuable documents of the political and artistic upheavals of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. This rich collection is introduced by poet and critic David Lehman and includes notes by Justin Spring, author of Porter's biography.
Download or read book Never Say Never Three s the Charm Another Triple Crown written by Nydia Sagre and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Who Dares written by Pat Kruger and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Grant, an ingenious and notorious villain, is released at last from prison in October 1997. Awaiting him, is a member of a mysterious group in Spain that wants to recruit him. Unbeknownst to the mystery contact, Grant died during his incarceration, and retired SAS officer, Neil Beeches, has accepted an assignment to take his place. His brief is to impersonate Grant, to discover who they are and why they need his special skills. Gina Douglas is one of a team assigned to watch his back, and when he is whisked onto a flight to Spain, she follows. Her Spanish counterpart, Luis, is awaiting her, and their instant aversion to each other threatens to make their relationship a rocky but passionate one. the role that is planned for Neil is beyond his wildest imaginings, and made even more dangerous and difficult when a young female hostage is taken. Now he must succeed in his assignment, whilst ensuring her safety and gaining her freedom, never stepping out of role. Who would dare to take on this dangerous task? He dares, but will he win?
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